Episodic Memory

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Q. do dogs have memories the way people do?

Claudia Fugazza is an animal behavior researcher at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. The first task for her and her associates was to design a memory test.The test would target episodic memory by ruling out reliance on learning, which would instead tap into semantic memory. Memory researchers agree that a key aspect of episodic memory is that memories are saved without the knowledge that they have to be remembered in the future. So, any test of episodic memory has to be unexpected.The dogs in this study were energetic participants who were all easily trained to imitate a simple action, such as looking into a bucket or touching an umbrella with the command “do it.” Previous research